Name
Albert Smith
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/05/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Bombardier
786142
Royal Field Artillery
"A" By. 190th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
XV. I. 7.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
FOR EVER WITH THE LORD
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Kimpton memorials, Tong War Memorial, Yorkshire
Pre War
Albert Smith was born in 1894 in Bradford, Yorkshire, the son of Joseph and Harriet Smith and one of three children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 214 Tong Street, Tong, Yorkshire, where his father was working as a blacksmith. By 1911 they had moved to 31, Shetcliffe Lane, Dudley Hill, Bradford, Yorks at which time Albert was working as a weavers weft lad in a worsted factory and his father was a blacksmith in a colliery.
He married Harriet Carr on 8 August 1914 at St John, Bowling, Yorkshire. Her address on pension records was 447 Tong Street, Dudley Hill, Bradford, later changed to 15 Regent Place, Starbeck, Harrogate, Yorks. CWGC records give her address on the memorial record as Hazlemere, Kimpton, Welwyn, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bradford, Yorks and served with the Territorial Force of the Royal Field Artillery. He was a bombardier attached to the 190th Brigade.
He died of wounds on 5 June 1918 and is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £15 10s and pay owing of £18 3s 7d. She also received a pension of 15 shillings a week, later increased to £1 9s 9d.
Mrs H Smith, Hazlemere, Kimpton, Welwyn, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: "FOR EVER WITH THE LORD".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts
